UPDATED List of received proposals

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 05/03/2008, Rich Sands <Richard.Sands at sun.com> wrote:
> Now 18 Proposals!
>
>  Sorry I missed you Wayne - you're in there now.
>
>         --  rms
>
>  ------------------------------------
>
>  1. An automatic process to shrink and optimize
>  the OpenJDK run-time libraries                            Eric Lafortune
>
>  2. Implement Closures for Java                            Neal Gafter
>
>  3. Meta-compiler for non-java code to run on
>  the java virtual machine                                  Stig Anders Björklund
>
>  4. Implement XRender pipeline for Java2D                  Clemens Eisserer
>
>  5. Porting the PyPy JIT to JVM and MLVM                   Antonio Cuni
>                                                            Carl Friedrich Bolz
>                                                            Nicholas Matsakis
>
>  6. Pattern Oriented Framework for the rapid
>  implementation of Java applications                       Edgar Galvis
>
>  7. JSR-310, Date and Time API                             Stephen Colebourne
>                                                            Michael Nascimento Santos
>
>  8. Pot Pourri - Augmented Stack Traces,
>  ServiceProvider annotation and processor,
>  Enhanced For Loop utility class                           Bruce Chapman
>
>  9. Java Foreign Function Interface                        Wayne Meissner
>
>  10. Implementing Modified CICE and Block-Attached
>  Calling                                                   Haitao Sun
>
>  11. Portable GUI Backends                                 Roman Kennke
>                                                            Mario Torre
>
>  12. Virtual Machine Interface                             Andrew John Hughes
>
>  13. Provision of jrawio, a set of Image I/O codecs
>  for "camera raw" formats, suitable for inclusion
>  in OpenJDK                                                Fabrizio Giudici
>
>  14. Stream connection between mobile
>  device/application and desktop via bluetooth              Robin Sreivastava
>
>  15. Free Software synthesizer implementation for
>  the OpenJDK project                                       Karl Helgason
>
>  16. "JavaSound extensions and service providers
>  for Ogg/Vorbis and Ogg/FLAC"                              Tor-Einar Jarnbjo
>
>  17. Porting the HotSpot VM to Haiku, x86                  Bryan Varner
>                                                            Andrew Bachmann
>
>  18. OpenJDK on Windows                                    Ted Neward
>
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Interesting that in the end, proposals were all written by at most
three people (with sole authorship being common).
-- 
Andrew :-)

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